Hello everyone,

First of all, sorry if I got the wrong thread. This is the only thread I found Klipper-related posts.

My problem is as follows. I do lots of office-related stuff of on my box, running Slackware 14.0 with KDE 4.8.5 and I'm having issues "copy + pasting" stuff. The symptoms are the following:
- I have to clipboards, one that handles Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V and "right-click->Copy" / "Right-Click->Paste" or "Shift+INS" clipboard, and one that handles "mouse selection" / "middle-mouse click". As far as I noticed, sometimes the clipboards get mixed up. Sometimes what I copy with Ctrl+C gets pasted with middle-mouse click, and sometimes mouse selection gets pasted with "Shift+INS".

To make a long story short, my question is: Is there any way to have a single clipboard that can be pasted with either Ctrl+V and Shift+INS and middle-mouse-click, and so on ? It's disturbing because at some times, doing everything by reflex, I don't remember if the Copy was selection copy, or right click copy, or what was it again ?

I've tried toggling klipper's options, like "Ignore selection" or "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection" but nothing happens. I tun on "Ignore selection" and I'm still able to do selection pastes, for example. Do i need to restart the process, or something ?

Thank you.

Enabling the "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection" setting in Klipper should achieve the desired behaviour. Can you check to see if you have another clipboard manager application running? Also, with which applications are you experiencing copy/selection/paste issues?

Hello bcooksley, and thank you for your reply.

I can confirm that I have no other clipboard managers running. I'm running a default installation of slackware 14.0 64-bit, and as far as I know, klipper is the only manager that comes with it by default. I'm tring copy pastes from various places, such as google docs - spreadsheets in firefox or chrome, thunderbird, konsole, and kwrite, and sometimes the clipboards keep getting mixed up (although I have the "Synchronize clipboards" action selected). Also I've tried disabling selection copy, cleared the clipboards, selected something and then pasted it, so I think something doesn't work properly.

Thank you!

One setting you could try enabling is "Ignore selection", and ensure that the other two settings for "Selection and Clipboard" are disabled. Based on the names of the options, I suspect it is only possible to have one active at a time.

Thank you for your help, it seems to be working now (altough I didn't change anything, synchronize clipboards is still on).

Also, thank you for your time.

Not a problem - good to see it is working as it is intended to.

Hello,

It seems I've hit the same bump again. Although I have "Ignore selection" ticked, whatever text I select in Mozilla Firefox, and konsole is automatically added to the clipboard for pasting. I have the following options ticked in klipper's options:

[ v ] Save clipboard contents on exit
[ v ] Prevent empty clipboard
[ v ] Ignore images

[ v ] Ignore selection

The other options on the "General" tab are unticked.

As far as I can see, I'm not running any other clipboard manager. Any ideas on what I should try next ?

try removing/renaming $KDEHOME/share/config/klipperrc

Hello there,

I've moved the klipperrc file from /home/<username>/.kde/share/config/klipperrc to the same path /klipperrc.old , rebooted the whole computer just to be sure, and am getting the same behaviour.

I'm running X as the user masked as <username>, not as root.

Best regards,

This could be a feature of Firefox itself possibly. Does it happen with other applications, such as Konqueror, Akregator or KWrite?
If it does not, then try to reproduce it in Firefox without Klipper running. If it still happens, then it is definitely a Firefox specific behaviour.

Hi there,

Yes, this also happens in kwrite, konsole, basically everything. It's like whatever I tick or don't tick in the klipper config doesn't get updated. If I tick something, exit the config tab, and open it again, it's still ticked, but it doesn't change klipper's behaviour.

I'm running slackware, so I'm suspecting some permissions issue of some file, but unfortunately, I don't know what other files the klipper package has. From what I see, my user's .kde folder is owned by my user. Are there any files that need to have my user's ownership, or some group permission outside the user's home folder ?

Best regards,

For Klipper to function properly, it only needs write access to the files under $KDEHOME (usually ~/.kde4 or ~/.kde depending on the distribution).
In any case - changing the configuration should have immediate runtime implications - a failure to change the settings should only affect the persistence of settings across restarts of Klipper.

Can you try to minimise the number of other applications running, to ensure nothing else is interfering with the clipboard (ie. to confirm it is a bug inside Klipper).

Hello,

Well this turned out really weird. I just stopped klipper, did a ps auxf | grep klipper to be sure it was off. I can still copy-paste like before, so I'm guessing something isn't working as expected. Here is a paste of: ps auxf -> http://pastie.org/pastes/8189700/text?k ... wcod7pdvta . For my own security, I've replaced my usernamed with <user> and deleted everything regarding my ssh connections. Other than that, everything is untouched.

Can anyone identify something out of the ordinary ?

Best regards,

That looks fine - I cannot see any other clipboard managers which I am aware of. This unfortunately seems like it may be a bug inside Klipper. I am guessing that starting it up again now still does not result in the correct functionality being applied? (Just ruling out failure due to session management issues).

Hi,

Starting klipper up again doesn't produce any change. Everything acts the same, doesn't matter if klipper is running or not. What could be causing this ?

Thank you!